This totally avoidable display of weakness was just as predictable. I warned that putting the USS McCain on the trail of this ship was a bad idea from the start.

Obama had decided to pursue the toothless United Nations route and should have left it at that. Instead we get this news today.

The United States will not use force to inspect a North Korean ship suspected of carrying banned goods, an American official was quoted as saying Friday.

An American destroyer has been shadowing the North Korean freighter sailing off China’s coast, possibly on its way to Myanmar.

Rather than allow this to be another UN failure, Obama decided to make it a 100% American failure.

HotAir aptly described their view:

Pathetic.

Note to President. A war ship at sea is like a pistol in a ghetto. If you have no intention of using it, you don’t want to show it off.